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FROM CAPTAIN BASIL HALL. 



EDINBURGH, February 22, 1837. 



IT affords me much pleasure to have an oppor- 

 tunity of sending you Mrs. Hall's compliments and my own, 

 and of assuring you that we remember, and ever shall re- 

 member, your very kind attentions to us, and those of Mrs. 

 Silliman and your two daughters. Our little girl, also, to 

 whom you were so kind, though she has forgotten all about 

 her transatlantic travels, is kept in the full knowledge of 

 the hospitality with which she, as well as her papa and 

 mamma, were received in America. We have been great 

 wanderers since we had the pleasure of seeing you ; but 

 we always look back to America with the warmest feelings 

 of gratitude, not merely to those friends to whom we were 

 personally known, but to the country generally, and if I 

 had not become old and stiff and lazy, I might venture 

 again across the Atlantic ; for I should suppose, from all I 

 hear, that in the few years which have elapsed since I visited 

 the United States, the circumstances have changed so as to 

 make it a different country. I wish you joy, with all my 

 heart, of your railway sort of speed, and hope that your 

 happiness and success, in all respects, may keep pace with 

 your speed in national progress. 



Ever, very dear sir, 



Most sincerely yours, 



BASIL HALL. 



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